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Publicity photo for the 3rd season premiere of My Three Sons. Clockwise from left: William Frawley as Bub, Tim Considine as Mike, Fred MacMurray as Steve, Don Grady as Robbie, and Stanley Livingston as Chip from My Three Sons. |
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The photo was produced in 1962; the publicity release on the back of the photo says that the show would begin its third season when ABC issued the photo. The show began in 1960. Further, William Frawley who is pictured in the cast photo, was written out of the script after the 1964-1965 season and died shortly before the 1966 date that is stamped on the back of the photo. The show also left ABC after the 1964-1965 season and began airing on CBS, where it was seen from 1965 to 1972 in original broadcasts. |
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For promotion of the 3rd season premiere of My Three Sons, this photo was released by the ABC Press Relations to various media outlets. See Permission and Licensing for more details. Downloaded from eBay: ebay item, photo front, photo back |
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This photo print belonged to ABC Television. An unidentified photographer must have been for hire a staff of either ABC, MCA Television (owner of Revue Television and Universal Television), or any other studio photographer. |
Copyright requirements InfoField | All versions of and other unscanned portions of the back of this photo do not display the copyright notice. This photo was released under the Copyright Act of 1909, and, under the 1909 Act, the copyright notice was required and must contain three elements:
- The symbol © (letter C in a circle); the word “Copyright”; or the abbreviation “Copr.”
- The year of first publication. If the work is a derivative work or a compilation incorporating previously published material, the year date of first publication of the derivative work or compilation is sufficient. Examples of derivative works are translations or dramatizations; an example of a compilation is an anthology. The year may be omitted when a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work, with accompanying textual matter, if any, is reproduced in or on greeting cards, postcards, stationery, jewelry, dolls, toys, or useful articles.
- This was not required for copyrighted photos published before 1978 under Copyright Act 1909, and omission of date may have been irrelevant to such works. However, Copyright Act of 1976 came into effect and then has applied to copyrighted materials published before 1978. Year has become required for works published before 1978. Consequently, pre-1973 copyrighted photos without a year of copyright and registration and required mandatory deposit into the Copyright Office lost copyright protection and then fell already into the public domain.
- The name of the copyright owner, an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of owner.
- Example © 2007 Jane Doe.
See http://www.copyright.gov/history/1909act.pdf for older rules that apply to pre-1978 works without required notice. See more at Appendix A of the Copyright Act of 1976: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92appa.pdf. |
Copyright Act of 1976 InfoField | Under Appendix A, the 1976 Act does not provide copyright protection for pre-1978 U.S. works already in the public domain. |
Explanations about older publicity releases InfoField | Film production expert Eve Light Honthaner in The Complete Film Production Handbook, (Focal Press, 2001 p. 211.):
Publicity photos (star headshots) have traditionally not been copyrighted. Since they are disseminated to the public, they are generally considered public domain, and therefore clearance by the studio that produced them is not necessary.
The Professional Photographer's Legal Handbook By Nancy E. Wolff, Allworth Communications, 2007, p. 55:
There is a vast body of photographs, including but not limited to publicity stills, that have no notice as to who may have created them.
Creative Clearance-Publicity photos"
Publicity Photos (star headshots) older publicity stills have usually not been copyrighted and since they have been disseminated to the public, they are generally considered public domain and therefore there is no necessity to clear them with the studio that produced them (if you can even determine who did).
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